Annunciating means for cash-registers.



G. F. W. SCHULTZE. V ANNUNCIATING MEANS FOR CASH REGISTERS.

APPLICATION TILED [LY 9, 1912.

Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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G. F. W. SCHULTZE.

ANNUNGIATING MEANS FOR CASH REGISTERS.

Patented Oct. 14,1913.

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APPLICATION TILED MAY 9, 1912.

G. F. W. SOHULTZB. ANNUNGIATING MEANS FOR CASH RE'GISTBRS.

Patented oct. 14, 1913.

APPLICATION FILED KAY 9, 1912.

lm "in mumnmumm him G. F. W. SGHULTZB.

ANNUNOIATING MEANS FOR CASH REGISTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1912.

1,075,443. Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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G. I. W. SGHULTZE.

ANNUNOIATING MEANS FOR CASH REGISTERS.

APPLIGATIOH FILED MAYQ, 1912. 1,075,443, Patented 001114, 1913.

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ANNUNCIATING MEANS FOR (ELSE-REGISTERS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAV. F. W. SCHULTZE, a citizen of the United States, re siding at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin An.- nunci ating Means" for Cash'-Registers,- bf which the followingis a specification. 5

The hereinafter described invention reilates toan' improved cash register attachwith the well known types of registers now universally in use, and may be either embedied in the register or positioned at some distant point therefrom and connected thereto, and has for its principal object to provide an attachment that is capable of audibly =announcing the amount or amounts of each purchase registered as the same are rung up in the register; that a record of the amounts may be directly transmitted to the bookkeeper for auditing or that each purchaser may be assured that the proper amount of his purchase was rung up in the register by the sales clerk.

A further object is to provide an attach mom of the above described character that is capable of announcing the purchase in dollars and the fractions of dollars as they are rung up in the register upon the pressure of the operating keysthereof.

Another and important object is to provide an attachment of the above character that is simple in construction, positive and automatic in all of its operations and capable of fully carrying out the purposes for which it is designed.

The invention consists in records having recorded thereon for audible annunciation dollars and cents, devices for operating the same, a reproducer associated with each record means for moving the reproducers over said records indisengagement therefrom, de-

vices for limiting the movement of said reproducers over said records, said devices being thrown into operationby the pressure of register keys, means for throwing the reproducer associated with the dollars annunciating record into operative relation therewith for the announcing of the amount "of dollars corresponding to the dollars key operated in the register, means for disengaging the "reproducer from the dollar record after the amount of dollars desired has been announced and returning it to'its normal po- Specificafl'on of Letters Patent.

Patented'Oct. 14, 1913 A'ppli-oation'filed' May a, 1912. Seria1 Ro.69 6,1-22.

siti-on, devices for throwing the reproducer associated with the cents record into" operative' relation-therewith" upon the disengagement of the'reproducer associated with the doilarsrecord for announcing the amount 015 cents corresponding tothe cents key operated in the register, means for disengaging the reproducer from the cents record after the desired amount of cents have been-announced and returning it to its normal position, and means operatable after the' reproducers have been restored to their normal position for stopping the operationofthe device. 7

With the above mentioned and other ob-: jects in view, theinve'ntion consists in the novel construction and combination of-pa'rts hereinafter fully described, illustratedin'the accompanying sheets of drawings and pointed=-out in the claimshereto :appended; it be-- 'ing understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of theappended claims, may be resorted to'without *departing from' the spirit or'sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

To comprehend the invention reference should be had to the accompanying sheets of drawings illustrating a simply constructed apparatus for successively carrying out the invention, wherein- Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved device disclosing the records, the re- "producer carriages, the reproducers associated therewith in their normal. position,- the means operating-the reproducers to permit the same to travel over the records, the pins for limiting the movement of the respective reproducers, and the devices for operating the several parts of the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1, with the operating gear wheels shown in dotted lines, discloSing themotor for operating the same and the devices associated therewith for starting and stopping the same, the repro 'ducer carriages,the magnets for elevating the pins that limit the movement of the reproducer carriages, and-the devices for moving the reproducer over the record, caus- 'ing the same to drop into contact with the record for annou'ii'cingthe amount of the purchase, and for moving the reproducer' from the record after the amount of purchase h'asbeen announced and restoring it "to its normal position. Fig. 3 is arre'ndelevation lookin in the direction of the arrow+Fig. v1, disclosing the motor, the dollars record, the reproducer and carria e associated therewith, the magnets for e evating the pins to regulate the movement of the reproducer over the record, and the worm and pawl for moving the reproducer from its normal position to a position over the record. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view disclosing the records, the reproducers and carriages associated therewith, the magnets and pins for limiting the movement of the reproducers, the oppositely rotating worms for moving said reproducers to and from the record, the arms, associated with said reproducer carriages and carrying at their ends suitable dogs, one of said do s on each arm being in engagement with said worms, said worms ada ted to move the reproducer over the recor and rotating arms adapted to engage said dogs to permit the reproducer to rest on the record for announcing the proper sums, and other rotating arms for engagement with other dogs 'for intermeshing said dogs with their corresponding worms for returning the reproducer to its normal position. Fig. 5 1s a transverse sectional view of the device disclosing the magnets, the reproducer carriage, the pins associated with the magnet for limiting the movement of the carriage and the carriage having been moved later ally over the record and engaging the pin corresponding to the register key operated. Fig. 6 is a detail View 0 the pawl mounted on the reproducer carriage for engagement with the catch plate formaintaining the pins in their up ermost position after so positioned by the1r respective magnets and releasing the pins from said position after performing their function. Fi 7 is a top plan detail view of the catch p ate adapted to be operated by the pawl in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail view of one of the gear wheels carrying a suitable contact pin adapted to first engage a. contact to throw into operation the record carrying the cents sales, and after the same has been announced and the reproducer carriage returned to its normal position to engage'a contact to stop the motor. Fig. 9 is a detail'of one of the spring pressed pins adapted to engage into a suitable seat in the record supporting mandrel shaft and after the same has completed its announcing revolution to retain the record in such position that it will be properly presented for the next announcing. Fig. 10 1s a detail of one of the record supporting mandrel shafts, disclosing the slidably mounted spring pressed collar carried thereby, the integral pin projecting therefrom,

Y the gear wheel and pin associated therewith,

the magnet and --armature for normally maintaining the collar and pin carried thereby out of engagement with the gear wheel,

and the cam projector carried by the collar for engagement with the armature for restoring the collar to its normal position after the shaft has completed one revolution. Fig. 11 is a side elevation in detail of one of the arms associated with each reproducer carriage, disclosin the pawls pivotally mounted adjacent t e end thereof, the worms adapted to be engaged by said pawls, and the pin at the end of one worm shaft for positioning one of said pawls in en agement therewith, that the carriage wil be positioned to move over the record upon the operation of one of the register keys. Fig. 12 is a diagrammatic view of an electrical circuit connected with the dollars and cents keys of a cash register, and disclosing the ma nets and armatures for operating the limiting pins, the magnet and armature for releasing the motor upon the operation of a register key, the contact for operating the armature for operating the cents record.

upon the completion of the announcing of the dollars record, and the contact for operating the magnet and armature for stopping the motor after the respective parts have performed their function and returned to normal position.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference numeral 1 designates a suitable supporting frame having a suitable bed 1'.\ Mounted beneath the bed 1 of the frame 1 is a suitable motor 3, on the shaft 4 of which is mounted. suitable gears 5 and 6, the gear 6 intermeshing with a gear 7 which in turn intermeshes with a pinion 8, mounted on a gear 9 rotatably supported by a shaft 10, the gear 9 intermeshing with a pinion 11 secured to a gear wheel 12, rotatably mounted on a shaft 13, journaled in a suitable arm 14 the gear 12 operating the respective parts of the device as disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 of the-drawings.

The gear 12 intermeshes with gears 14 and 14, positioned one on each side thereof and rotating respectively about the shafts 15 and '15, suitably journaled above the bed 1 of the frame, the shafts carrying at their opposite ends suitable mandrels 16 and 16' over which are adapted to be positioned suitable talking machine records 17 and 17', the record 17 hereinafter termed the dollars record having recorded thereon expressions in amounts of dollars and of such a number from one dollar upward as is required by the register to which the device is attached, and the record 17 having recorded thereon for annunciation expressions of cents of such number from one to one hundred as is required by the register to which the device is attached and hereinafter termed the cents record.

Associated with each record are the re producers 18 and 18 of the well known type and each is provided with the usual sound directing horn 19, the bells of both of which face the same direction. The reproducers are supported at the ends of suitable upwardly curved arms 20 and 20', extending over the records 17 and 17, and connected at their inner ends to one end of suitable tubular members 21 and 21 which are mounted to slide over rods 22 and 22, rigidly supported above the bed 1 by suitable brackets projecting upwardly therefrom. Extending from the opposite ends of the tubular members 21 and 21 and projecting in the same direction as the arms 20 and 20 24 of the arm 23, and the dogs 25 and being pivoted to the horizontal portion 24 of the arm 23. Each of the dogs terminate in a downwardly curved finger 26. and are gears 29 an with pinions 30 and 30', carried by gears 31 and 31, which are keyed to. rotate with suitprovided in one edge thereof with a suitable arcuate cut out 27 in the upper surface of which is formed a downwardly extending semi-circular tongue 28, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described.

The gears 14 and 14 intermesh respectively with inions 28 and 28-, carried by 29, which in turn intermesh able worm shafts 32 and 32, journaled in the sides of the frame 1, the gears 31 and 31 intermeshing with corresponding gears 33 and33 keyed to rotate with corresponding worm shafts 34 and 34, arranged in parallel relation to their respective shafts32 and 32. The tongues 28 of the dogs 25 and 25 are adapted for engagement respectively with the oppositely rotating worm shafts 32 and 34, and the tongues 28 of the dogs 25 and 25 are adapted for engagement respectively with the oppositely rotating worm shafts 32 and 34. Projecting from the inner end of the shafts 34 and 34 are pins 34 and 34, adapted to engage the pawls 25 and 25 and pro erly position the same on their respective-s .afts in a hereinafter described manner.

Arranged integral with the gears 14 and 14 are pinions and 35 which intermesh with suitable gears 36 and 36 and they in turn intermesh with gears 36 and 36 which are keyed to rotate with shafts 37 and 37, johrnaled in the frame 1, and said shafts being provided respectively with projections or arms 38 and 38 which extend the full length thereof and are adapted to operate respectively the dogs .25 and 25 the gears 36 and 36 operating through the pinions 39 and 39, gears 40 and'40 which are-keyed respectively to the ends of shafts 41. and 41 journaled in the frame and said shafts be- J ing provided respectively with projections or arms 42 and 42 which extend the full length thereof and are adapted to operate the dogs 25 and 25 Feathered on the shafts 15 and 15 and arranged adjacent the gears 14 and 14 are suitable collars 43 and 43, provided with outwardly projecting arms 44 and 44 from the ends of which project at right angles suitable bevel ended pins 45 and 45, normally held in spaced relation from bevel ended pins 46 and 46, carried by the gears 14 and 14, by pins 47 and 47 carried by suitable armatures 48 and 48, which are operated by magnets 49 and 49, the pins 47 and 47 adapted to normally lie in engagement with the cam shaped projections 50 and 50 arranged on the inner ends of the collars 43 and 43,

Upon the magnets 49 and 49 being operated in a hereinafter described manner the collars 43 and 43 are forced outwardly in the dotted line position-Fig. 10, and the pins carried by the respective gear wheels associated with said collars, will engage the pins carried bythe collars upon the second revolution of said wheelsand the collars as they are rotated, will, as they have about completed their rotation,'be automatically disengaged from the pins of the gear wheels by reason of the armature pins associated with the collars engaging in the cam'shaped shoulders on the inner ends of the collars. The collars are forced outwardly by-the tension of coiled springs 51 and 51 surrounding the shafts 15 and 15, and their rear ends abutting against collars 52 and 52' keyed to rotate with the shafts. Spring pressed pawls 53 and 53 are adapted to engage in suitable notches in theperipheries of the collars 52 and 52 and maintain the shafts in proper position to properly present the record tothe reproducer each time the device is operated, and to prevent the mandrel shafts from spinning after the same are disconnected from the operating gears. I Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 7, the reference numerals 54 and 54 designate the limiting pins for engaging the ends of the repro-ducer arms and regulating the travel of the reproducer carriages associated respectively with the dollars and cents-records, the pins being thrown upwardly through suitable openings in the bed 1 of the frame by armatures 55 and 55' supported bythe brackets 55 and operatedby the magnets 56 and 56, each connected in a hereinafter described manner to its res'pec t-ive cash register key, (the pin in Fig. 5 being shown as connected to the six dollar key of a register). The pins limit the movement ofthe re roducer over the record that the same wi 1 be properly presented to the amount to be called out and correspond ing to the amount rung up in the register. The releasing means for each set of limiting pins bein the same, a description of one is thought W1 1 sufiice.

A movable plate 57 is provided over each series of openings in the bed plate 1- upper end with a notch 59 which is adapted to be engaged by one end of the slots 58 through which the pin is projected, and the pin retained thereby in an elevated osition. The plates 57 are capable of diagonal movement over the bed 1' of the frame by the guide slots 60 through which extend the guide pins 61, the lower ends of which are seated in the bed 1' of the frame, and the plates are retained in their normal position, as in Fig. 7, by a coiled spring 62.

A pawl 63 pivoted as at 64 to the rear of each reproducer carriage, adjacent the reproducer supporting arm thereof and normally retained in a vertical position against a stop pin 65 by the action of a spring 66, is adapted when the carriage is moved from its normal position to a position over the record, to engage an upstanding arm 67 on one end of the plate 57 and override the same, as in dotted linesFig. 6, but on its return movement the pawl engages the arm 67 and moves the plate in a manner indic'atedby the dotted lines Fig. 7, removing the end of the slot 58 from the notch 59 of the pin and permitting the same to drop to its normal position below the bed 1 of the frame, and the plate 57 i in its continued diagonal movement freeing itself from the pawl 63 and the spring 66 returning it to its normal position.

Secured to one of the supporting legs of the frame 1 and extending under the bed 1 thereof to a point adjacent the motor 3 is a bracket 68, in which is rotatably mounted a governor shaft 69 connected by suitable gears 70 to the gear wheel 50f the motor 3. The governor shaft 69 is provided adjacent its outer end with a speed regulating blade or vane 71, and at its end with a controlling pin72, the movement of which is normally. interrupted by the end of a curved rod 73 attached to an armature 74, adapted to be operated by the magnets 75. The armature I 74 when operated is adapted to carry the rod 73 and force the same into engagement with the hooked end 76 of an armature arm 77 which is controllable by the magnets 78, the magnets receiving their power in a hereinafter described manner, the structure being disclosed in F igsu 2, 3 and 12 of the drawings.

letter A, a circuit is formed through the" conductor B, battery 0, and back to the register key; this circuit will energize the magnet 56, elevate the pin 54, representing in this case the pin that limits the'movement of the reproducer over the dollars record to the six dollar point; energize the magnet 49 withdrawing the pin from the cam projection 50 and releasing the collar 43; energizing the ma net withdrawing the arm 73 from the pin 72 and permitting the motor to operate, a portion of the arm being engaged by the catch 76. The operation of the 50 re 'ster key, designated by a which-will compi te the recording of the purchase in the register aa1d which is operated either simultaneously with the $6.00 key or slightly later, completes a circuit through the conductor 6, battery C, and back to the register key; the current energizing the magnet 56', raising which will raise the pm 54 limiting the reproducer to travel over the cents record on y to a point whereon is recorded fifty cents. The motor 3 now having been started, the device is geared to operate in the following manner :The worm shafts 34 and 34 with which the pawls 25 and 25 are in register are rotated in the direction of the arrowsFig. 2, the rotation of the shafts simultaneously moving the reproducers 18 and 18' over their respective records. 17 and 17 in disengagement therefrom. The pin 54 representing the $6.00 purchase will be engaged by the arm 20 and the movement of the reproducer 19 over the record 17 stopped, the arm 20 will continue to move over the record 17' until it contacts with the pin 54' representing the fifty cents purchase-fifty being nearer the far end of the record than six. After both reproducers have reached their required position having had time to travel the full length of the record, if necessary, the arms 42 and 42 traveling in the direction of the arrows-Fig. 2, will have completed one revolution of travel and will contact with the'fingers 26 of the pawls 25 and 25 and the tongues 28 thereof will be disengaged from the worm shafts 34 and 34 and the reproducers 18 and 18 are on the cents record 17 at the point whereon the armature 55' there is recorded the expression fifty cents. The wheel 14 having at this time about com pleted one revolution and the magnet 49 aving momentarily pulled the pin 47 away from the cam projection 50, at the time when the motor 3 was started, the collar will be in the posit-ion as in Fig. 10, and the pin 46 on the gear 14 engaging the pin 45 on the arm 44 will cause the shaft 15 carrying the record 17 to rotate and the amount-six dollars to beannounced. After the dollars expression has been announced, it will be observed from Fig. 10 that as the gear 14 completes its second revolution, the pins and 46 will be disengaged from each other and the rotation of the shaft 15 stopped. As soon as the rotation of the dollars record is stopped the arm 38 will have about completed a revolution and will engage the finger 26fof the pawl 25, first elevate the reproducer from its record and then seat the tongue'28 thereof in the grooves of the rotating shaft 32, and the same rotating iii the direction of'the arrowFig. 1, the reproducer" 18 will be traveling awa from the record toward its normal position. Upon the com letion of the announcing revolution of t e dollars record, the gear 9 carrying a pin 79 tapped in the conductor B at a point 80, contacts witha finger 81 making a circuit from thebattery C t rough 80, 79, 81, the conductor 0, and the magnet 49', and back to the battery-C, and it will be observed that the magnet 49' will be. energized .momentarily withdrawing the pin 47 from the'camprojection permitting the pin 45 to assume the same position as shown in dotted lines-Fig. 10, and upon the next revolution of the gear 14 the pin 46' carried thereby will engage the pin 45- and the shaft 15 carrying the cents record will be rotated, and upon the same having made a complete rotation, the amount fifty centsannounced the pins 45 and 46 will be-disengaged from each other in the same mariner aswere the pins 45 and 46. Upon the v completion of the announcing of the cents purchase, the arm 38' will have completed one revolution and the same will engage tlie finger 26 of the pawl 25, first elevating the reproducer 18' from its record and then seating the tongue 28 of the pawl in the groove of the worm shaft 32', for the return of the reproducer to its normal vposition.

After the reproducer 18 has been returned 'toitsnormal position, theI gear 9' carrying the in 79 will have rotated in the direction oft e arrow Fig. 12, and will engage a 82, and the magnet78 will be ener- 3, and permit the 'armto swing by gravity into engagement with the-member 2 and stop the motor with the several parts of the machine 'in their proper, position for the announcing of additional sales The pawls cations, electrical connections zed releasinigthe catch 76 from the arm- 25 and 25 are so constructed as to slip the threads of their respective worm shafts upon their reproducer arms striking the limiting pins, and this is accomplishedby the tongues 28 resting on the wormshafts and each shaft rotating in a direction outwardly from the upper end of the arcuate cut outs 27, and the pawls remain in en agement with said shafts until tripped t erefrom by the arms 42 and 42'. The pawls upon their returned movement will be engaged by their respective pins 34 and '34 and positioned on their worm shafts; the pins operating as in Fig. 11 of the'drawings.

Upon the return movement of each reproducer to its normal position, the pawl 63 carried thereby will engage the upstanding arm 67 carried by the pin retaining plate 57, the pawl actuating the plate as in Fig. 7 of the drawings, and permitting the retaining pins to drop by gravity to their normal position below the bed 1 of the frame.

-Upon the ringing of a cents' purchase in the register and not a dollar purchase, the same operations as above described will be performed except the reproducer 18 will travel.the full length of the record 17, will be thrown into engagement therewith at the end or blank portion thereof, but the record will not rotate as themagnet 49 had not been energized on the pressure of the cents key.

' Should a dollar purchase be rung up in the register without also ringing cents, the complete operation will take place as in a dollar and cents amount, except the limiting pins 54 will not be elevated and the cents reproducer will travel the length of the cents record, engage a blank portion at the far end thereof, and as there is no recorded matter on this portion of the record,

no annunciation will be made when the record revolves.

Having thus fully described the advantages, construction and operation of my device, what is claimedas new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is 1. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination with the-registering keys of a cash register, of a record -havin'g recorded thereon for annunciation coin indications, of means coa'cting therewith for announcing etween said means and the respective registering kegs of a cash register for automa 'cally shi ing the position of the announcmg means relative ;to the record in accordance with the sum represented by the operated reglster key, means for bringing1 the same to a positive state of rest on t e announcement of the sum recorded in the register, and for restoring the announcingmeans to normal position.

2. In a coin annunciator for cash registors, the combination with the registering said; indikeys of a cash register, of a record having recorded thereon for annunciation coin indications, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrical connections between said means and the respective keys of a cash register for automatically shifting the announcing, means relative to the record upon the operation of a register key, means for limiting the movement of the annunciator relative to the record in accordance with the value of the operated register key, means for bringing the annunciator to a positive state of rest on the announcement of the sum represented by the operated register key, and means for restoring the announcing means to normal position.

3. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination with the registering keys of a cash register, of a record having recorded thereon for annunci'ation coin indications, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrical connections between said means and the respective keys of the cash register, means controlled by said electrical connections for automatically shifting the annunciator relative to the record upon the operation of a register key, means for limiting the movement of the announcing means relative to the record in accordance with the value of the operated register key, means for bringing the annunciator to a positive state of rest on the announcement of the sum representcd by the operated register key, and means for restoring the annunciating means to its normal position.

4. In a coin an'nunci'ator for cash regis-- ters, the combination with the register keys of a cash register, of a record associated with the dollar registering keys of a cash register and a record associated with the cents registering keys of a cash register, said records having respectively recorded thereon for annunciation coin indications of dollars and coin indications of cents, of means c'oacting with each of said records for announcing said indications, electric-a1 connections between each of said announcing means and their respective keys of a cash register; means controlled by said electrical connections for automatically shifting the announcing means relative to their respective recor'ds upon the operation of the respective register keys, means for limiting the movement of the announcing means rel"- ative to their respective records inaccordance with the value of the operated registerkeys, means for bringing the announcing means to a positive state of rest, means for causing announcement of the sum represented by the operateddbl-l ar register key, means operatable upon the completion of thesaid announcement. for causing the airnounc'ement of the sum represented by the key,

and means for operated cents register key, 7

means to their returning said announcing normal positions.

5. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination with the register ng keys of a cash register, of a record having recorded thereon for annunciation coin 1ndications, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrlcal connections between said means and the respective registering keys of a cash register,

means controlled by said electrical connections for automatically shifting the position of the announcing means re ative to the record in disengagement therefrom and In accordance with the sum represented by the operated register key, means for throwing the. announcing means and the record in engaged relation for the announcing of the sum rep-resented by the operated register key, means for disengaging the announcing means and the record upon the completion of the announcement of the sum, and means for returning the announcing means to its normal position.

6. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination with the registering keys of a cash register, recorded thereon for annuneiation coin indications, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrical connections between said means and the respective registering keys of a 1 cash register,

record in disengagement therefrom, meansfor limiting the movement of the announclng means relativeto the record 1n accordance with the value of the operated register means in engaged relation with the record for announcing the sum represented by the operated register key, means for disengagingthe announcing means from the record upon the completion of the announcement of the sum, and means for returning the an noun'cing means to its normal position.

'7. In a coin annunciator for cash regis ters, the combination of the register keys of a cash register, of records having recorded thereon for ann-unciation coin indications, means coacting with each of said records for announcing the indications recorded thereomelectri'cal connections controlling the operating of said annunciating means and operatabie by the keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the annunciati'ng means relative to their respective records in disengagement therefrom upon the operation oi the. register keys associated with each announcing means, means for limiting the movementv of the announcing means relative to the record in accordance. with the value of the: operated register key associated of a record having means for'throwing the announcing amen respective records, means for successively rotating the records for the announcin of their respective sums represented by t eir respective operated register keys, means for disenga 'ng the respective announcing means rom their respective records upon the completion'of the announcing thereby, and means for'restoring the respective an nouncing means to their normal positions.

8. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination of the register keys of a cash register, of records having recorded thereon for annunciation coin indications,. means coactin with each of said records for announcing t e indications recorded thereon, electrical connections controlling the operating of said announcing means and operatable by the keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the announcing means relative to their respective records in disengagement therefrom upon the operation of the register keys associated with each announcing means, electrically operated means for limiting the movement of the announcing means relative to the record in accordance with the value of the oper mal positions.

9. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination with the registering keys of a cash register, of a record having recorded thereon tor annunciation coin indications, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrical connections between said means and the respective keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the announcing means relative to the record upon the operation of a register key, means for limiting the movement of the announcing means relative to the record in accordance with the value of th operated register key, said means being thrown into operation by the actuation of the register keys, means for bringing the announcing means to a positive state of rest on the an nouncement of the sum represented by the operated register key, and means for restoring the annunciating means to its normal position.

10. In a coin annunciator for-cash registers, the combination with the registering keys of a cash register, of a record having recorded thereon for 'annunciation coin indiv cations, of means coacting therewith for announcing said indications, electrical connections between said means and the respective keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the announcing means relative to the record upon the operation of a register key, means for limiting the movement of the annunciator relative to the record in accordance with the value oi the o erated register key, means for .bringing e announcing means to a positive state of rest on the announcement of the sum' represented by the operated register key, means for restoring the announcing-means to its normal position, and means operated by the announcing means on its return movement for restoring the annunciator limiting means to its normal position. I

11. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination of the register keys of a cash re ister, of records having recorded thereon or annunication coin indications, means coactingwith each of said records for announcing the indications recorded thereon, electrical connections controlling the operating of said announcing means and operatable by the keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the announcing means relative to their respectiverecords in disengagement therefrom upon' the operation of the register keys associated with each announcing means, means for limiting the v means relative to their respective records in accordance with the sums represented by their respective operated register keys and bringing said announcing means to a positive state of rest. on the successive announce-. ment of the sums represented by the respective operated register keys and restoring the respective announcing means to their normal positions.

12. In a coin annunciator for cash registers, the combination of the register keys of a cash register, of records having recorded thereon for annunciation coin indications, means coacting with each of said records for announcing the indications recorded thereon, electrical connections controlling the operating of said announcing means and operatable' by the keys of the cash register for automatically shifting the announcing means relative totheir respective records in disengagement therefrom upon the operation of the register keys associated with each announcing means, means for limiting the movement of the announcing means relative to the record in accordance with the value of the operated register key associated therewith, means for throwing the respective announcing means in contact with their respective records, means for rotatin one of said records for the announcing o the sum represented byt-he operated register key associated therewith, means operated upon the completion of the announcement key associated therewith, means 1 disen;

gaging the respective announcing means from their respective records upon the com- 15 plet-ion of the annunciating thereby, and

means for restoring the respective announcing means to their normal ositions.

n testimony whereof I ave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV F. w. SCHULTZE."

Witnesses D. B. RICHARDS,

ARRY .A. Tom. 7 

